Petrovskaya Embankment

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PETROVSKAYA EMBANKMENT lying between Troitskaya Square and Petrogradskaya Embankment on the right bank of the Neva River on Petrogradskaya Side. It appeared in what was then the city centre in the 1700s as the first embankment of St. Petersburg. Peter the Great"s house (today, the Cabin of Peter the Great Museum) was built in 1703. Houses of his associates such as Y. V. Bruce and M. P. Gagarin were situated nearby. P. P. Shafirov"s house (not preserved) accommodated the Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1724-27. The embankment was built up with storehouses from the 1730s. Gagarinsky Penkovy Buyan was a warehouse for hemp situated in place of house 8 and demolished in 1932. A garden with a bust of the emperor by sculptor P. P. Zabello was located not far from Peter the Great"s Cabin in 1872. As Troitsky bridge was built in 1903, the embankment was reconstructed and covered with granite by architect N. I. Novikov and engineer F. G. Zbrozhek. It was named Petrovskaya Embankment (Peter"s Embankment) after Emperor Peter the Great in the same year. Sculptures of mythological characters of Shi-Tza brought from Manchuria were placed in the embankment in 1907. Grand Prince Nikolay Nikolaevich the Younger"s Palace and apartment house were built by architect A. S. Khrenov at numbers 2 and 2/2 in 1910-13 and 1909, respectively. The palace has been the residence for the Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in Northwestern Federal District since 2001. Building 8 was erected by architects E. A. Levinson and I. I. Fomin in 1937-40, building 6 by architects V. F. Belov, A. A. Leyman, and A. V. Govorkovsky in 1961-62. National Actors N. P. Akimov, E. A. Mravinsky, E. A. Lebedev, G. A. Tovstonogov and Y. V. Tolubeev lived in house 4, Rear Admiral P. F. Papkovich and writer F. A. Abramov in house 1/8. A monument to sailors and fathers of the Russian Fleet by sculptor M. K. Anikushin and architect T. P. Sadovsky was opened in 1996.

References: Привалов В. Д. Петровская набережная // БА. 1971. № 31. С. 39-49; Максимов В. Петровская набережная // Диалог. 1988. № 25. С. 28-32.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Abramov Fedor Alexandrovich
Akimov Nikolay Pavlovich
Anikushin Mikhail Konstantinovich
Belov Viktor Fedorovich
Bruce Yakov Villimovich (James Daniel)
Fomin Igor Ivanovich
Gagarin Matvey Petrovich, Duke
Govorkovsky A.V.
Khrenov Alexander Sergeevich
Levinson Evgeny Adolfovich
Leyman Anna Aloizovna
Nikolay Nikolaevich (Jr.), Grand Prince
Novikov Nikolay Ivanovich
Papkovich Peter Fedorovich
Peter I, Emperor
Sadovsky Timofey Petrovich
Shafirov Peter Pavlovich, Baron
Tolubeev Yury Vladimirovich
Zabello Parmen Petrovich
Zbrozhek Fedor Grigorievich
Petrogradskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Petrovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 2, litera корп. 2
Petrovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
Petrovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 2
Petrovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 6
Petrovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Petrovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 8/1
Petrovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 4
Troitskaya Square/Saint Petersburg, city
Привалов В. Д. Петровская набережная // Блокнот агитатора, 1971
Максимов В. Петровская набережная // Диалог, 1988 Cabin of Peter the Great, museum
1903
1996